‘For a fire is kindled by My anger,And it burns to the depths of Sheol (the place of the dead, the nether world),It devours the earth with its yield,And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

For great is Your lovingkindness and graciousness toward me;And You have rescued my life from the depths of Sheol [from death].

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

The [chosen] path of life leads upward for the wise,That he may keep away from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) below.

“Ask for a sign from the Lord your God—from the depths of Sheol to the heights of heaven.”